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No one will read your book
And other truths about publishing.
After I completed my first novel, I had dreams of a beautiful black book, its ivory pages sewn into the binding, the title embossed in gold leaf, a single red ribbon denoting the place where a reader might pause in their reading, adrift in another world. Romance author H. M. Ward, for instance, self-published a novel in 2013 “to see what would happen” and found herself atop New York Times bestselling lists and earning eight-figure revenues without the help of a traditional publishing house. “ The ‘Presse’ pays nearly 300 francs per day for feuilletons to Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, De Balzac, Frederic Soulé, Theophile Gautier, and Jules Sandeau,” Littell’s Little Age, Volume 10 wrote in 1846.
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